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DALLAS – (BUSINESS WIRE) – Multinational construction consultancy Linesight today opened its Scheduling Center of Excellence (CoE) with a team of subject matter experts based in Dallas. Integrated and reliable planning know-how is a specialized management skill that promotes the effective use of funds and provides project implementation roadmaps that can help determine whether the parameters of a construction project are realistic and achievable. Linesight’s skilled planners enable clients to make informed decisions faster by providing them with an integrated approach to managing tradeoffs between cost, schedule, risk management and project scope. This center of excellence is the first of its kind in the industry to give Linesight customers access to best practice project reports and confidence in the predictability of project results.

“To support our CoE, we have hired some experienced talents to guide our planning processes. Robert Farrell joins us as Director of Risk and Scheduling after 11 years advising and working for and on behalf of the world’s largest oil and energy services companies. Richard Colmer, who joined our design team two years ago, will be our Dallas Center of Excellence Design Director and brings over 30 years of extensive experience in multinational life sciences and construction consultancies. I am confident that Richard, Robert and our expanded global planning team together will have a significant impact on the project results of our growing customer base, ”said Tom Dempsey, Chief Operations Officer.

“With the establishment of the industry’s first competence center, Linesight is strategically positioned at the forefront of project planning capacities; Combination of industry-wide recognized best practice procedures, industry experience and dynamic software systems. Linesight’s customers benefit from access to technical experts, a centralized support function and an agile, dynamic service in order to minimize project risks and take advantage of project dynamics and opportunities. Linesight’s regular health checks also establish and maintain the quality of the schedule so that customers can be confident in their decision-making processes, which supports early action and enables all the necessary pivot points for changes, ”commented Robert Farrell.

“The art of scheduling is a critical element in analyzing the impact of changes on a project and serves as an early warning system,” said Richard Colmer, Center of Excellence Scheduling Lead. “Our flexible and agile resource pool offers reliable, results-oriented advice, early strategic advice, industry benchmarking and, above all, central administration and control of project data. Deviations from deadlines are almost always followed by cost deviations, and our Center of Excellence enables us to identify these deviations at an early stage, identify risks and advise our customers on remedial measures and effects. Our experience and in-depth expertise in several industrial sectors, including data centers, life sciences, commercial real estate, residential real estate, high-tech industry and the like. ”

About Linesight

Linesight is a multinational construction consultancy with over 45 years of experience providing cost, schedule, program and project management services to a variety of sectors including life sciences, commercial, data center, high tech, residential, hospitality, healthcare and retail. Linesight’s specialized project teams, each with specific skills and experience, offer better predictability of project results, faster project execution, higher cost efficiency and maximum value for money for its customers. More information is available at http://www.linesight.com.